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I think that part of the success of the US is that it’s so hard to change things with all the checks and balances. So the representatives don’t matter much and

I think that part of the success of the US is that it’s so hard to change things with all the checks and balances. So the representatives don’t matter much and just a way to occupy the need to appear to have governance. So Congress is like the Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B [0] and that might be good because if it was full of Ship A people they would just be stomping over each other. and if it was Ship C people we’d be minmaxing and micromanaging. [0] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_...

vmception 6y ago
Just because we’ve never had a military coup isn’t a very high bar to gauge our system of checks and balances American exceptionalism intrinsically relies on comparing itself to the worst countries in the world and being ignorant of other developed nations.
- prepend 6y ago
  It also intrinsically relies on being exceptional. There’s certainly many flaws, but it’s not luck that we’ve avoided coups for a couple hundred years. Seems pretty well designed and built on lots of previous successes. My comment wasn’t so much saying US is best, but just pointing out that having idiots elected and futzing about in DC seems like not such a bad idea.